Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are taking a pragmatic approach to using AI in the kernel. AI or no AI, it's people, not LLMs, who are ...

The Linux kernel is moving toward a better way of identifying developers and their code. This new approach can be used by other open-source projects. It's not being rolled out yet, but I expect it to ...

Developers will be able to download the WSL code and build it from source to help with fixes or features. Developers will be able to download the WSL code and build it from source to help with fixes ...

Today, as Corbet said, "We are up to just over 40 million lines of code at this point. It's fair to say that, indeed, Linux has become big and professional." The first thing he noted was that, no ...

Distro leaders draw stark AI lines from outright bans to cautious embrace, upending contributor norms and trust networks.

Microsoft, which has been at odds with the Linux community over the years because of intellectual property issues, on Monday said it has released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux kernel ...

I’m Brian Gordon, tech reporter for The News & Observer, and this is Open Source, a weekly newsletter on business, labor and technology in North Carolina. Code running as written is not the same as ...

Linus Torvalds says Linux developers should embrace AI coding tools or fork the project, ending a heated open-source debate.

Under certain conditions, attackers can chain a set of vulnerabilities in multiple components of the CUPS open-source printing system to execute arbitrary code remotely on vulnerable machines. Tracked ...

The Linux Foundation released the official agenda for Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2026 (October 7-9 in Prague), an event that will celebrate the 35th anniversary of Linux ...